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‘WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?’ When Covid-19 hit in March 2020, this is the question that Sandwich Express owner Martin Drury asked himself again and again before dramatically changing his business in order to keep trading
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or Martin Drury, owner of Sandwich Express in Ellesmere Port – which operates a fleet of sandwich vans that deliver freshly baked food and coffee to local offices and a sandwich shop – Covid-19 was initially catastrophic. When lockdown measures were imposed, Martin had to halt all the vans and close the shop door, and his loyal customers disappeared overnight. “It all just stopped and we had to park all the vans,” he says. “We thought, ‘what do we do?’. All but three of our 36-strong team were furloughed and we had stock sitting there with nowhere to go, which was going to go out of date.” After a lot of thought, Martin and his two team members came up with the idea of creating food boxes for customers to buy. They adapted the website and
